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Sharing lunch with students can transform a teacher’s day from stressful to joyful. Building relationships over meals fosters trust, engagement, and empathy while providing insights into students’ lives and interests.
14 wrz 2022 · Few approaches for increasing participation have leveraged teachers’ potential social influence. We determined if a teacher intervention about the benefits of school lunch could improve teachers’ perceptions of, and participation in, school lunch, and encouragement of students to eat school lunch.
18 gru 2018 · This article presents a snapshot of how pedagogical lunches are organized and aligned with the IB philosophy and how they present daily learning opportunities. An interesting feature about compulsory schools in Sweden is that students are entitled by law to free and nutritious school meals.
27 maj 2020 · The objective of this study was to better understand the perceptions of the food served during school lunch, the lunchroom atmosphere, and the food service staff using the results of a survey conducted with students at six middle schools in a rural midwestern state.
14 wrz 2022 · It is important to understand if teacher perceptions can be shifted, and in turn, positively impact teacher modeling behaviors—such as eating school lunch and eating with students in the cafeteria—and increase teachers’ encouragement of student participation in school lunch.
25 sie 2022 · This study investigated the impact of changing from a traditional school breakfast program (i.e., serving breakfast in the cafeteria before school and charging a fee based on family income) to a breakfast in the classroom program that offered meals at no charge at the start of the school day.
As childhood obesity continues to threaten the overall health of young people, K-12 teachers are uniquely poised to advocate for, and support food and nutrition, school lunch and student health. Yet, classroom teachers are largely uninvolved in school lunch.
